Journal Article

Energy Management of Industrial Energy Systems via Rolling Horizon and Hybrid Optimization: A Real-Plant Application in Germany

Kansara, Rushit, Kyriakidis, Loukas, Roldán Serrano, Maria Isabel

2025

Overview

Industrial energy systems are increasingly required to reduce operating costs and CO2 emissions while integrating variable renewable energy sources. Managing these objectives under uncertainty requires advanced optimization strategies capable of delivering reliable and real-time decisions. To address these challenges, this study focuses on the short-term operational planning of an industrial energy supply system using the rolling horizon approach (RHA). The RHA offers an effective framework to handle uncertainties by repeatedly updating forecasts and re-optimizing over a moving time window, thereby enabling adaptive and responsive energy management. To solve the resulting nonlinear and constrained optimization problem at each RHA iteration, we propose a novel hybrid algorithm that combines Bayesian optimization (BO) with the Interior Point OPTimizer (IPOPT). While global deterministic and stochastic optimization methods are frequently used in practice, they often suffer from high computational costs and slow convergence, particularly when applied to large-scale, nonlinear problems with complex constraints. To overcome these limitations, we employ the BO–IPOPT, integrating the global search capabilities of BO with the efficient local convergence and constraint fulfillment of the IPOPT. Applied to a large-scale real-world case study of a food and cosmetic industry in Germany, the proposed BO–IPOPT method outperformed state-of-the-art solvers in both solution quality and robustness, achieving up to 97.25%-better objective function values at the same CPU time. Additionally, the influence of key parameters, such as forecast uncertainty, optimization horizon length, and computational effort per RHA iteration, was analyzed to assess their impact on system performance and decision quality.

• Publisher: MDPI AG
• Subject: Accuracy / Air quality management / Alternative energy sources / BO–IPOPT / Case studies / Cosmetics / Cosmetics industry / Electricity / Energy industry / Energy management / Energy management systems / Energy resources / food and cosmetic industry / Forecasting techniques / Heat / Linear programming / Management decisions / Operating costs / Optimization techniques / Performance evaluation / Random variables / Renewable resources / rolling horizon approach / Strategic planning / Temperature / Thermal energy